Personal Narrative: Life In A New Country

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As an immigrant, life in a new country brings many issue as a family adjusts to changes. One of the main issues my family has dealt with is financial issues. My mother came to this country after her divorce with my father four years before my siblings in order to have a home and stability for our arrival. She worked three jobs: house cleaner, dish washer at a restaurant, and taxi driver at night. When I came to this country in 2005, my mom had bought a small house in a good school area and she had gotten married. While we didn’t have plenty, we had enough and each other. Problem arose when my mom’s husband then took to drinking and became an unbearable alcoholic. In 2012 after many trials in their marriage, they divorced. Although my mom never

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